The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays - Hardcover

Wasserstein, Wendy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151399859 ISBN 13: 9780151399857

Publisher: Harcourt, 1990

Synopsis

Three plays deal with recent college graduates deciding what to do with their lives, a woman trying to be a successful executive and mother, and an art historian changing with the times from the sixties to the eighties

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About the Author

Wendy Wasserstein is the author of the the plays Uncommon Women and Others, Isn’t It Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, and The Heidi Chronicles, for which she received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and of the books, Bachelor Girls and Shiksa Goddess. She was admired both for the warmth and the satirical cool of her writing; each of her plays and books captures an essence of the time, makes us laugh and leaves us wiser. Wendy Wasserstein was born in 1950 in Brooklyn and died at the age of 55. Her daughter, Lucy Jane, lives in New York.

From Library Journal

Wasserstein has made the cultural territory of the American experience since the 1960s her own. She is its most articulate theatrical chronicler. This collection of her recent work, Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, traces that experience through three decades of changing styles, mores, life objectives, and intellectual challenges. She examines her characters and their times with great good humor, complexity, depth of feeling, and a firm refusal to accept trite and easy images. She writes the truth about people and their lives without blinking. She teaches us all what it was like to live through a period of great turmoil and confusion. Recommended.
- Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State Coll., Mass.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0151399859
• ISBN 13: 9780151399857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249